Climate averages 1991–2020
Welkom weather
in March.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a warm month in Welkom: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 14.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 67 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 16 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Odendaalsrus (12 km away). In March its highs average 27.0°C, about as warm as Welkom, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Welkom ranks joint 29th of 95 for the warmest March highs and joint 22nd of 95 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 95 cities is 25.6°C; Welkom is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 3.5°C to 23.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 67 mm to 46 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Welkom climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.2°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 92 | 13.1 | 13.714 h |
| February | 28.3°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 75 | 11.5 | 13.113 h |
| March, selected | 26.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 67 | 10.3 | 12.312 h |
| April | 23.2°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 46 | 6.8 | 11.411 h |
| May | 20.2°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 19 | 3.2 | 10.811 h |
| June | 17.1°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 12 | 1.8 | 10.410 h |
| July | 17.3°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 6.3 | 1.0 | 10.511 h |
| August | 20.6°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 15 | 2.0 | 11.111 h |
| September | 25.3°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 14 | 2.6 | 11.912 h |
| October | 27.3°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 51 | 7.5 | 12.713 h |
| November | 28.1°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 67 | 8.9 | 13.513 h |
| December | 29.1°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 91 | 13.1 | 13.914 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
March in nearby cities
- Odendaalsrus in MarchSouth Africa · 12 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 15.0°C · 64 mm rain
- Kutloanong in MarchSouth Africa · 16 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 15.0°C · 64 mm rain
- Virginia in MarchSouth Africa · 19 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 15.1°C · 67 mm rain
- Kroonstad in MarchSouth Africa · 61 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 14.5°C · 68 mm rain
- Bothaville in MarchSouth Africa · 66 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 15.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Orkney in MarchSouth Africa · 111 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 14.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Klerksdorp in MarchSouth Africa · 125 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 15.0°C · 70 mm rain
- Stilfontein in MarchSouth Africa · 126 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 14.7°C · 70 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Welkom) is explained once on the Welkom year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Virginia lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.